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Posted by Patrick Dingle at 05/02/2001 9:02 PM EST


College Student on team #639, Red B^2, from Ithaca High School and Cornell University.


In Reply to: Re: Slightly humorous story about global warming & space explor.
Posted by Jason Rudolph on 05/02/2001 12:18 PM EST:



Yah, probably should have been in general... oh well...

Anyway, I firmly believe the only way to fix this problem, should it exist, is to develop new technology that elimanets the emission of greenhouse gasses altogether.... such as Dean's sterling engine. If the government wants to put money into these research areas, that's great... I also think many of these companies that do the research have NASA as a main customer... So you gotta fund NASA (not to mention the FIRST teams).

We could spend money on making power plants and cars more efficient, but this would mean spending billions of dollars on technologies that are still emitting greenhouse gasses, only a slim margin less. Due to population increases and other factors, greenhouse emission would still be forced to be increased. It's like trying to knock down a skyscraper by throwing pebbles at it.

Anyway, didn't mean for another argument about global warming... Just wanted to post a story I thought others would find interesting. Anyone feel free to respond if you have different viewpoints... but that's all i'm saying on the matter.

Patrick

p.s. thanks again for the ride to the bus station in FL!

: While I agree with you on the most part, I do disagree on some levels. Money can be spent to reduce emmisions by uprading old technology in manufacturing, etc, to more current technologies that are more efficient, etc. While I am not talking about power generation, per say, that is by far, not the only source of emissions. Also, and I know that this has nothing to do with funding NASA or anything, but you can't tell me that car manufacturers trends of moving towards producing bigger, more gas-guzzling suv's and trucks is helpfull to the environment. There are plenty of ways we can use money to help reduce emmisions, just saying "we can't, oh well" is not the best response. Not that I think the money should come from NASA, but I do think that more money does need to be used in subsidies and other govenment programs to make it more attractive to companies to reduse their enegry consumption, and emissions.

: Jason
: who just realized that this post really shouldn't have ended up in the "tech" forum